Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slivers of Bone. Lincoln himself, according to Psychiatrist Edward Kempf, suffered from a mother fixation, accentuated by her death when he was nine. Other psychiatrists agree that it was largely responsible for his periodic, almost schizoid, bouts of depression, for his eagerness to pardon military deserters (the mothers of the country, he argued, should not be made to suffer more than they had), and for the "exhibitionistic and self-destructive impulses" reflected in a recurrent dream that he would be assassinated before his second term was out. As for Walt Whitman, he would never have poured so much sexuality into...
...moved in 1952 to New York City, where they took an apartment in The Bronx. At 13, Lee Oswald was a chronic truant, and The Bronx children's court referred him for psychiatric examination to the Youth House for Boys. Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs concluded that Lee had a schizoid personality and was potentially a "dangerous person who needed treatment." Says Probation Officer John Carro: "His environment was poor because his mother was in need of help herself." At one point during an examination, young Lee was asked what he would feel if he plunged a knife into a person...
Harvard's hockey team resolved its schizoid tendencies over Christmas vacation, and rolled up four solid victories. The Crimson was also named the outstanding team at the First Boston Garden Hockey Festival after defeating Toronto, 4-1 and Minnesota, 5-2 on Dec. 21 and Dec. 23. Captain Gene Kinasewich was voted most valuable player, and left wing Ike Ikauniks and defenseman Bob Clark were also named to the All-Star Team...
...arrest someone, then Lawyer Chuck Connors spends the remainder of the time preparing and presenting the defense case. The whole is encased in a thin shell of phony dialogue and dramaturgy. Says the defense counsel to the judge: "I ask the court's indulgence while I present the schizoid face of forensic analysis." The judge might have to sit still, but viewers have their option...
...giant has never really wavered from President Harper's original aim: grown-up teaching and research. In "schizoid" Midwest fashion, as Orientalist John A. Wilson put it not long ago, Chicagoans "pound on our chests and proclaim fiercely that we are the corn belt or the pivotal center of the country or the home of American nationalism or the 'hog butcher of the world.' Yet secretly we long to out-Harvard Harvard, to out-Oxford Oxford, and to out-Sorbonne the Sorbonne as a citadel of pure intellectuality...